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IS--.*' ' The Fort Mill Times. VOLUME 19?NO. 32. FORT MILL, 8. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1910. II 2S pew tttat. DEMOCRACY RIDES ROUGH-SHOD OVER REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION v fc For the first time since 1892 the Democratic party has won a signal victory throughout the country which has swept into office a majority of members of the lower house of Congress as well as the party's candidates for governor and other State offices in many Northern States that have gone Republican for wellnigh 20 years. In New York, John A. Dix has been elected by more than 50,000 plurality; Woodrow Wilson will be the next governor of New Jersey; Judge Baldwin is elected governor of Connecticut ; Congressman Foss | defeats Draper for governor of j Massachusetts; Governor Har- j mon is reelected in Ohio, as is Governor Marshall in Indiana;1 Mayor Dahlman will be the nextj governor of Nebraska, and in j Iowa the Democrats claim the election of Claude R. Porter for governor. Unfortunately, Tennessee seems to have given Hooper (Republican) a small ma- j jority over Senator Bob Taylor for governor. The Democrats apparently have made the greatest gains in the States in which Theodore Roosevelt spoke for the Republican candidates. Roosevelt's home district gave Dix a plurality over Stimson of 204 as against a plurality of 793 for Hughes two years ago. Full returns probably will add to the number of Democratic governors elected in States that are nor mally Republican. The Democrats have gained one congressman in Connecticut, one in Kentucky, two in Maryland, one in Massachusetts, three in New York, three in North Carolina, and returns indicate the gain of three or four seats in Missouri, three in Iowa and five or six in Illinois, or enough to insure control of the next house of representatives. In Indiana a Democratic Legislature will elect John W. Kern to succeed Albert J. Beverage in the United : States senate and it is probable I that a Democrat will succeed Sen- j ator Dick, of Ohio. Cansler After the Job. A petition was circulated on the streets of Rock Hill Saturday requesting Governor Ansel to appoint Cansler of Tirzah to the vacant position on the board of railroad commissioners caused by the death of Commissioner Sullivan some days ago. Cansler is well known over the State, having been a candidate for the office of railroad commissioner a number of times and on two occasions making a close run for the place. Full Page Advertisements. This week, for the first time in the 19 and more years of the life of The Times, the paper carries two full pages of advertising matter for local merchants. In many South Carolina towns such liberal use of printer's ink is the rule rather than the exception, and there are few issues of a number of weekly papers in the State which do not contain at least one full page advertisement for a home merchant. That the value of The Times as an advertising medium is at last recognized is gratifying to the paper as it should be to the community. Visitors in Lancaster. Lancaster News. Mr. A. B. Withers and bride, formerly Mrs. Ella Gladden, of firpnt Falls visit^rl this week. Mr. and Mrs. Withers were happily married at the latter's home in Chester county on the 20th ultimo. The bride, who is a daughter of the late # Col. Churchhill B. Jones, of this county, has many friends and admirers in Lancaster. .Mr. Withers is a railroad man of much exEirience. He is a native of Fort ill. ' Talk of Change of Local Postmaster. A report was current on the streets of Fort Mill yesterday that T. G. Moser, boss weaver at the Millfort mill, is an active applicant for the postmastership of Fort Mill and that he will be given the support of National Committeeman John G. Capers in his efforts to secure the place. The statement is made that Mr. I Moser has secured the indorsement of a number of local business men as to his good character and sobriety and that he will use these indorsements in furthering his candidacy. Mr. Moser has been a resident of Fort Mill for the last two years. He is a native of western North Carolina. The fact that he is a Republican was not generally known until a few weeks ago, when he attended the "lily white" convention in Columbia as a delegate from the Fifth congressional district. The present postmaster, Mr. B. H. Massey, has held the office ! for several years. When the office was advanced to the presidential class a few years ago, he was appointed for a full fouryear term by President Roosevelt. The term will expire a few weeks hence. Mr. S. S. McNinch Defeated. From the returns so far available, Mr. S. S. McNinch, Republi- . can candidate for Congress in the Ninth North Carolina district, appears to have made a surprisingly poor race against his Demo- : cratic opponent, Congressman E. Y. Webb. Mr. McNinch ran far ( behind the vote given the Repub- , lican nominee two years ago, and the indications are that Mr. IVphK'o mdinritv mill Vio . ^ w liiujv/l ivj tT III UC IIIUI C than 4,000. Mecklenburg county | stood by the Democratic nominee, as usual, and out of 4,500 votes in the county Mr. McNinch got less than a thousand. In Pineville Mr. McNinch got only two votes out of 80 and at Providence box No. 2 he failed to get a single vote while the 61 Democrats were busy putting in the ballots for Mr. Webb. Coming from Charlotte to his brick yard at Grattan yesterday morning, Mr. McNinch remarked that his defeat was due to the failure of the Republicans to give him the support he had expected. Western Cattle Shipped In. Mr. S. E. Bailes, one of Pleas-1 ant Valley's progressive young farmers, who is a recent graduate of Clemson college, is preparing to enter the cattle business on an extensive scale. During the last ten days Mr. Bailes received a car of east Tennessee cattle which were driven to the rich ! pasture lands on his plantation i three miles east of Fort Mill. I This herd will form the nucleus of the business, which Mr. Bailes j hopes to develop to considerable proportions. Another farmer of this section who will go into the cattle business on an extensive scale is Mr. J. D. O'Connell, who is expecting the arrival of his first car from the West within j the week. Odd Picture of Methodist Church. Mr. L. J. Massey is the owner of an interesting collection of old photographs, most of which he made as an amateur photographer years ago. In the collection is a number of Fort Mill scenes of a quarter century ago. One is an odd picture of the Fort Mill Methodist church. In the picture the church appears to be J on the eminence of a very steep hill, which could be ascended only with great difficulty. The building looks as if it might topple over any moment and carry with it to destruction a num- i ber of persons who are seated on ' the steps. The negative of the photograph was given to Mr. Massey by an itinerant photographer. who exnlainpd thnt tha somewhat awkward appearance of the building was due to the! chemicals on the negative "running" from the excessive heat of the summer's day when an attempt was made to print from it. Killed 3,804, Injured 82,374. "Killed 3,804; iniured 82,374" ?this is the record of the railroads in the United States during , the year ended June 30 last. L , REPORT THAT MARION R. REECE IS LOCATED IN FAR-OFF CANADA A rumor was current in Charlotte yesterday morning that Marion R. Reece had been located in Canada. Twelve or more years ago Reece was tried in Yorkville with Daniel Luckeyfor the murder of a man named Williams in Blacksburg. Both were convicted and given life sentences in the State penitentiary, but were being held in the county jail pending an appeal to the supreme court for the rehearing of their case. By sawing a hole in the ceiling of the jail, Reece and Luckey escaped and have since been at liberty, though a persistent report a few , years ago naa it tnat L<ucKey was dead. It is recalled in connection with the case of Reece and Luckey that as the two were on the way from the court house to the jail after being sentenced by the judge, Reece attempted to escape and was shot in the back of the head by Deputy Sheriff Scoggins. The wound did not prove serious, however, and had entirely healed before Reece and Luckey broke jail three months later. If it is true that Reece has been located in Canada and he is brought back to South Carolina, there is little doubt that he will at once have to begin serving the sentence of life imprisonment which is hanging over him. $224,944 for Clemson From T?f Tax. The State treasurer has received the sum of $224,944.95 since the first of the year from the Bale of fertilizer tags. This fund goes to Clemson college. The total amount received from the tax last year was approximately $202,000. The total amount received to this date last year was $185,396.16. It is estimated that approximately $240,000 will be received during the year from the tax. This means that the farmers of South Carolina have used nearly 1 AAA AAA r?1:1: x,wv,uw iuiis kjl icruuzer tnis year, as there is a tax of 25 cents on every ton sold. It is expected that the matter of increasing the scholarships at Clemson, which is being agitated, will be brought up at the next session of the General Assembly. There may be a movement started to use part of the $240,000 for agricultural high schools to be located in several sections of the State. Barber Land Bid In by Heirs. The four tracts of land in Indianland township, Lancaster county, comprising a part of the estate of the late Mrs. T. E. Barber, which were advertised to be sold at the court house in Lancaster Monday, did not pass out of the hands of the Barber heirs. Mr. T. H. Barber, administrator of the estate and one of the heirs, did not consider the bids offered for the land representative of its worth and he therefore bid the four tracts in at an aggregate price of $8,436. The land is situated in the Belair CDntiAn on/1 mimU /vf * ??* ? uwvivii anu IUUV.II U1 11 Id virgin forest. The Condition of J. L. Ihomasson. The Fort Mill relatives of J. Lon Thomasson, who was taken as a patient to the North Carolina Insane asylum from his home in Gastonia some months ago, were gratified to receive a letter from Mr. Thomasson a few days ago in which he stated that his general health was good. It is learned from other sources, however, that there seems little hope for the early recovery of Mr. Thomasson. At times his mind his clear enough, but for the most part he is irrational and does not appear to be on the road to recovery. Mr. Thomasson formerly lived in Fort Mill. Book Club Entertained. On Wednesday afternoon Miss Minnie Garrison entertained the Castalian Book club at the home of Mrs. J. B. Mills. There were about 15 members present and the invited quests were Mrs. W. B. Ardrey, Mrs. J. B. Elliott, Mrs. W. T. Sellers and Mrs. T. A. Mills. Miss Garrison was assisted by Miss Jessie Wilson in serving a salad course and hot chocolate. SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS GIVE REPUBLICANS NO QUARTER In Fort Mill Tuesday, as elsewhere in York county and throughout the State, the general election for congressman and State and county officers passed off quietly and a light vote was polled. There was no organized opposition at any point in the State to the Democratic nominees, though there was the semblance of a contest in one or two congressional districts where the negro Republican organization had put up candidates, the purpose being to lay claim before the elections committee of Congress to the seat of the successful Democratic candidates. To defray the expenses of such contests Congress allows $2,000 to the contestant, and it is with the view of securing this sum of money that at least one member I of the South Carolina delectation is harassed at the beginning of every new Congress by a negro contestant, the usual grounds of the contest being based upon the alleged unconstitutionality of the South Carolina election laws, which disfranchise the illiterate and thereby deprive many negroes of the right of suffrage. Considerable interest was manifested throughout the State in the half dozen or more proposed amendments to the State constitution which were voted upon. There was marked opposition to the amendment proposing to increase the number of supreme court justices from four to five, but it is not yet known whether the amendment was adopted. The other proposed amendments related principally to bonded indebtedness in several towns. The principal offices to which the Democratic nominees were elected yesterday are as follows: Governor?Cole L. Blease, of Newberry. Leutenant Governor ? Charles A. Smith, of Timmonsville. Railroad Commissioner?G. McDuffie Hampton, of Columbia. | Adjt. General?W. W. Moore, of Barnwell. State Treasurer?R. H. Jennings, Fairfield. Comptroller General ? A. W. Jones, Abbeville. Secretary of State?R. M. McCown, Florence. Attorney lieneral ? J. Eraser l Lyon, Abbeville. Congress?First district, Geo. S. Legare, Charleston; Second district, Jas. F. Byrnes, of Aiken; Third district, Wyatt Aiken, of Abbeville; Fourth district, J. T. Johnson, of Spartanburg; Fifth district, D. E. Finley, of Yorkville; Sixth district, J. E. Ellerbe, of Marion; Seventh district, A. F. Lever, of Lexington. Dtath of Mrs. Julia Williamson. The third death in the Williamson family of Pineville during the last two years occurred Sunday morning when Mrs. Julia Williamson passed away. Two years years ago Mrs. Williamson's husband, Lundus Williamson, died. He was survived only six months by their oldest son, Grier Williamson. Mrs. Williamson had been ill for several months and her death was not unexpected. She is survived by three children, Walker Williamson, Miss Flora Williamson and Mrs. E. H. Hand. Mrs. Williamson was a member of the Pineville Presbyterian church and the interment was in the cemetery of that town Monday morning, the services being U.. i>? r\_ 17.: ?1 j v.uiiuuv.icu ujf nic nev, ui. nei|{ii| ton. Drifting Away From One-crop Idea. Gradually the farmers of this section are drifting away from the idea that for them there is i profit to be derived only in the cultivation of cotton. This year there has been more corn grown in Fort Mill township and contiguous communities than ever before and the acreage devoted to cotton in the future is expected to show a decrease from year to year. The prospect is that there will be less Western corn shipped to Fort Mill for consumption next VPar than in unv lilfn nnrirtrl ftw a long time, which will be partly due to the unusual amount of home-raised corn which will be sold on the local market by local i farmers during the next six ; months. Evidences of Fort Mill's Growth. While there are perhaps a number of the smaller South Carolina cities which the census will show have grown faster in the last decade than Fort Mill, the people of this section have no reason to feel disappointed at the progress the town has made in recent years. Twenty years ago Fort Mill was a village of 600 people, with one cotton mill and half a dozen small stores. These were the town's chief enterprises in 1890. In 1900 the town had grown to a place of 1,400. Now there are perhaps as many as 2,000 people living in Fort Mill. There are not as many manufacturing enterprises here as the town could accommodate, but the mercantile business here has grown 100 per cent, in the last; ten years. Fort Mill now draws a large volume of trade from nearby communities which for- j merly went to Charlotte and elsewhere. But one of the best evidences of the town's prosperity and growth is the increased price of real estate. Building sites which a few years ago sold for from $100 to $200 cannot now be bought for twice that amount, and it is not an easy matter to secure property at any price within reason. Work for the S. P. C. A.? If there is any truth in the report of an incident of cruelty to which a mule belonging to Stafford Withers, colored, was subjected by its owner some days ago there is work in Fort Mill township for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Withers should be made to suffer for his heartlessness. One day recently Withers rode his mule into town and there was an abrasion of the skin on the animal's hip half as large as a dollar bill. Inquiry as to the cause of the abrasion brought out the statement from a white man who claimed to know the facts that, because the mule was old and slow, Withers had taken a knife or other edged instrument and scraped the skin from the mule's hip, so that he could, by striking the animal on the sore with a whip, inflict punishment which would induce it to quicken its gait. To Attend D. A. R. Meeting. Kanawha chapter. I). A. R., of Fort Mill, will be represented at the 14th annual session of the South Carolina Daughters of the Revolution, to be held in Orangeburg November 15-18 instant, by Mrs. E. M. Belk and Miss Isabel Grier, Miss Grier attending the convention as the alternate of the regent of Kanawha chapter, Mrs. W. B. Ardrey. Moultrie chapter is to be the hostess of the convention and an elaborate program has been prepared for the entertainment of the delegates. Dur ing the conference Mrs. Belk will be entertained at the home of Mrs. D. D. Salley and Miss Grier will be a guest of Mrs G. V. Zeigler. Moving Picture Shows. The chief amusement of the country today is the source we doubt not of its greatest de, moralization, says The Presbyterian Standard. It is moving pictures. Mr. Edison's royalty on the fdms, it is said, is $8,I 000 weekly. Nine millions is paid the manufacturers for the films by those who rent them for $18,000,000 a year to the show men. n is reported that $f>7,.r>0J,000 was paid in nicklesand dimes i in 1909 to see these shows. The audiences or spectators numbered ; a quarter million souls a day. f The evil that grows out of it must be enormous. Suicide and other i crimes follow, we see on every hand, in its wake. Children are made familiar with vice and ? corrupted. Parents, preachers, i teachers cannot efface the imi pressions, arrest the quickened i impulses to wrong-doing sug| gested and fostered in the young ; by them. No sort of moral gov ernment has the right to license these shows in the use of character and life-destroying film3. i Parents do their children a monstrous wrong, let us insist, who : permit them to go to these shows indiscriminately. * # . - . THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY PRESIDENT TAFT The vigorous growth and progress of the country as reflected by the records of population and harvests and the general conditions of international peace are things for which thanksgiving is especially due for the year 1910, according to the annual Thanksgiving day proclamation issued by President Taft Sunday. The proclamation is as follows: "This year of 1910 is drawing to a close. The records of population and harvests, which are the index of progress, show vigorous national growth and the health and prosperous wellbeing of our communities throughout this land and in our possessions beyond the seas. These blessings have not descended upon us in restricted measure, but overflow and abound. They are the blessings and bounty of God. "We continue to be at peace with the rest of world. In all essential matters our relations with other peoples are harmonious, with an ever-growing reality of friendliness and depth of recognition of mutual dependence. It is especially to be noted that during the past year great progress has been achieved in the cause of arbitration and the peaceful settlement of international disputes. "Now, therefore, I, William Howard Taft, president of the United States of America, in accordance with the wise custom of the civil magistrate since the first settlements in this land and with the rule established from the foundation of this government, do appoint Thursday, November 24, 1910, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer, enjoining the people upon that day to meet in their churches for the praise of Almighty God and to return heartfelt thanks to Him for all His goodness and loving kindness." School Teachers Entertained. Miss K'lte Ardrey entertained the teachers of the Fort Mill graded school and a few friends at her home on Booth street Friday evening. The feature of the evening's entertainment was an historical contest, in which Prof. Mason Crum and Miss Jessie Wilson tied for the prize, a dainty Japanese hook-mark. A fruit course and bonbons were served by the hostess. TAX NOTICE?191 O. Office of the County Treasurer of York. County. vorkville, S. C.t Sept. 15, 1910. Notice is hereby given that the tax books for York county will be opened on Saturday, the 15th day of October, 1910, and remain open until the 31at day of December, 1910, for the collection of State, county, school and local taxes for the fiscal year 1910, without penalty, after which day one per cent, penalty will be added to all payments made in the month of January, 1911, and two per cent, penalty for all payments made in the month of February, 1911, and seven per cent, penalty will be added on all payments made from the 1st day of March to the 15th day of Marcn, 1911, and after this date all unpaid taxes will go into executions and all unpaid single polls will be turned over to the several magistrates for prosecution in accordance with law. For the convenience of taxpayers, I will be in Yorkville from Monday, November 14, until the Hist day of December, 1910, after which day the penalties will attach as stated above. HARRY E. NEIL, Treas. of York County. We Are Headquarters For the Following: Hardware, Crockery and Stoves, Buck's Steel Ranges, Lime, Cement and Plaster, Elwood Field and Hog Fence, McCormick Mowers and Rakes, International Gasoline Engines, Shredders, Corn Harvesters and Disc Harrows, Sewer Pipe and Farm Drain Tile, Grates and Tile, Chattanooga Turn and Disc Plows, Cole*8 Hot Rlast Heaters, Wilson Heaters, Machinery, Fittings and Supplies, Window Glass and Putty, Roofing of all kinds, Farmers' Favorite Grain Drills, Stalk Cutters, Spokes and Rims, Guns and Ammunition. Rock Hill Hardware Company, Rock Hill, s. c.